which really feels like his own. let's return to our top story. uk prime minister rishi sunak says last night's parliamentary approval of the rwanda bill represents a "landmark" moment in the government's efforts to deter illegal migration and end people smuggling. the measure, which aims to allow some asylum seekers to be deported to the east african country, took four months to clear parliament because of a stand off with the house of lords. human rights groups say the plan breaches international law, but mr sunak said nothing would stop him getting flights to rwanda "off the ground". and in the past few hours, our team in calais have been seeing small boats leaving the shore — with migrants on board trying to reach the uk. these are some of the latest pictures. let's speak to iain mansfield, who's director of research at policy exchange — which is right—leaning think tank. he's also a former adviser

to the government in 2020—2022. good to see you, thank you for coming onto the programme. rishi sunak has made this as flagship policy, it has dominated politics for much of this year. why is it so important to him?— for much of this year. why is it so important to him? ultimately, this is about stepping _ important to him? ultimately, this is about stopping the _ important to him? ultimately, this is about stopping the boats. - important to him? ultimately, this is about stopping the boats. if- important to him? ultimately, this is about stopping the boats. if we | is about stopping the boats. if we could look back even just ten years, the idea that 30,000 to 50,000 people were crossing the channel every year, that we have lost control of the borders, would seem incredible. we note is an issue that many of the public feel strongly about, and that is what this is about, and that is what this is about, stopping the boats by deterring people from making that channel crossing in the first place. 0bviously, last night's parliamentary conclusion was a triumph of the prime minister, but it is only the beginning. there are going to be considerable battles ahead for him before those planes take off. ., , , , ., take off. you published a paper, our take off. you published a paper, your organisation, _ take off. you published a paper, your organisation, on _ take off. you published a paper, your organisation, on the - take off. you published a paper, your organisation, on the safety| take off. you published a paper, l your organisation, on the safety of the bill. in the past arrive so, we

have heard from two top un officials saying that the policy will have a harmful impact on refugee protection and human rights around the world. what is your reaction to that? my reaction what is your reaction to that? m reaction to what is your reaction to that? m: reaction to that what is your reaction to that? m; reaction to that is that the uk as a sovereign nation and it is for our parliament to make those decisions. at the end of the day, france is a safe country, nobody is being persecuted in france, and therefore those who choose to cross the channel illegally are leaving from a safe country to get here. so, it is absolutely right and how we look at putting a stop to those troubles, and we saw the news you read out a couple of minutes ago about the terrible human costs of allowing those crossings to continue. [30 terrible human costs of allowing those crossings to continue. do you believe it will _ those crossings to continue. do you believe it will have _ those crossings to continue. do you believe it will have a _ those crossings to continue. do you believe it will have a deterrent - believe it will have a deterrent effect? we are watching people get on those boats, and savvy people losing their lives trying to head to the uk in these books —— sadly, people losing their lives. this is

the , i, i, , people losing their lives. this is the i, , i, the question, you will not see a deterrent effect _ the question, you will not see a deterrent effect until _ the question, you will not see a deterrent effect until the - the question, you will not see a deterrent effect until the first i deterrent effect until the first plane takes off. as a nation, we have been arguing and debating about this policy for two years now, so if i were sitting in france and considering crossing the channel, i wouldn't believe it would happen until i actually saw it. i would think, and i think the prime minister and his team will acknowledge this, it will take more than one plane, a drumbeat of planes leaving. ultimately, the proof of the pudding will be any in the eating, and the measure of success will not be how many people get sent to rwanda, but ultimately do we see a significant drop in the number of people crossing the channel? that is ultimately about human psychology, human behaviour, which is very hard to predict. 0f human behaviour, which is very hard to predict. of course, it will depend on what likelihood does a person think who is crossing the channel in october or november, think that they personally will be

sent to rwanda? that will be the real test of this policy. as i say, a real triumph of the prime minister lastly, but a lot of tests still to come. ~ i, lastly, but a lot of tests still to come, ~ i, i, ,i, lastly, but a lot of tests still to come. ~ i, i, i, come. what about the cost of this? the national _ come. what about the cost of this? the national audit _ come. what about the cost of this? the national audit office _ come. what about the cost of this? the national audit office puts - come. what about the cost of this? the national audit office puts the i the national audit office puts the cost at sending the first 300 people to rwanda at £2 million per person. how can the governmentjustify that? the real cost is not stopping the boats. it was published last year a calculation that said we are spending £3 billion a year on hotels and education and other services and payments to those who had crossed the channel illegally. failing to control our border is costing billions of pounds a year, coming out of our overseas development budget which could be much better spent. if it succeeds in stopping the boats, it will be money well spent. it all hinges on that fact. will it deliver?— spent. it all hinges on that fact. will it deliver? i, ~ , i, , i will it deliver? thank you very much for our will it deliver? thank you very much for yourtime- _

a furious row has erupted between elon musk and the australian government over access to footage that shows a stabbing in a church in sydney last week. an australian court has ordered mr musk�*s social media platform, x, to take down the video across the world, not just in australia. mr musk is challenging the ruling. he said the decision meant that any single country could control what was posted on the entire internet. australia's prime minister, anthony albanese, called mr musk an arrogant billionaire who thinks he's above the law. we will do what is necessary to take on this arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law but also above, dc. what the safety commission is doing is herjob to protect the interests of australians. —— above common decency. the idea that someone would go to court for the right to put up vibrant content on a platform shows how out of touch mr musk is. —— violent content. social media needs

to have response ability. mr musk is not showing any. to have response ability. mr musk is not showing any-— not showing any. what has elon musk's reaction _ not showing any. what has elon musk's reaction been? - not showing any. what has elon musk's reaction been? he - not showing any. what has elon musk's reaction been? he has l not showing any. what has elon - musk's reaction been? he has posted a meme accusing _ musk's reaction been? he has posted a meme accusing the _ musk's reaction been? he has posted a meme accusing the australian - a meme accusing the australian government of censorship. he says these global take—down orders, as he has described them, that australia has described them, that australia hasissued has described them, that australia has issued threatened free speech everywhere. this really does begin to test the reach of australian laws beyond the shores of this country. the australian prime minister, anthony albanese, is adamant that this footage must not be available and must be taken down. this row concerns very graphic and confronting video of a stabbing attack at a church in sydney a week ago. the authorities are worried that the sort of footage could

inflame tensions between religious communities in this country, given that the authorities here have declared that stabbing attack a week ago religiously motivated incident. what is the legality, what is the legal process that will follow? aha, legal process that will follow? court on monday here in australia said that x, the social media platform owned by elon musk must remove this content. at the time, ex said it would comply pending a legal challenge, that in the meantime, the row between both sides is continuing. elon musk are saying this is an issue of freedom of speech, and freedom of the internet, and not only have the australian prime minister, anthony albanese e, making remarks about elon musk, a senator in canberra has described him as a narcissistic cowboy. certainly, it is our row that looks

like it will intensify in the coming days and weeks.— an extreme form of soil erosion is causing entire communities to disappear across africa and latin america. experts have told the bbc that gully erosion is advancing at a worrying speed thanks to deforestation and the extreme weather caused by climate change and a lack of urban planning. 0ur population correspondent stephanie hegarty has this report from two cities living on the edge. this city in brazil is at risk of falling apart. translation: this thing has taken away my life. l joao batista is a mechanic and his workshop is on the edge of a giant ravine. translation: it got risky after it started raining - when the gullies started to grow. our whole house would collapse. boom. these ravines are caused by gully erosion. translation: my belongings, my house, it's all gone. - i only saved my children and my wife. in total, 60 people were killed when their homes collapsed into a gully here in kinshasa, in the democratic republic

of congo in 2022. translation: my neighbour who was on the other side, l she died with her four children. brigitte blames the construction of a highway uphill. translation: they built very tiny drains. - they couldn't cope with the amount of rainwater, and it overflowed. i've spent 19 years here, and nothing like this has ever happened. buriticupu is in the brazilian amazon, but since the �*90s, the timber industry has cut down most of the trees — a natural barrier to erosion. and when rainwater hits the bare ground, it can dislodge soil. streams of water then push this soil downhill, carving gullies into the earth that develop into these huge canyons. climate change is expected to make this problem worse. the rainfall intensities may increase with 10% to 15%, and due to that, gully erosion rates

may double or even triple. so for sure, this is a man—made disaster in many ways, but with proper infrastructure, this can be prevented. stopping gullies after they form is expensive. the brazilian government is considering a $60 million proposal for structural works in buriticupu. meanwhile, joao batista is trying to solve the problem by himself. translation: if i don't take action, the rain when it comes _ will take everything. after i started planting the bamboo there, the ground no longer fell. stephanie hegarty, bbc news in buriticupu, brazil. around the world and across the uk — this is bbc news.

here in the uk, a long—awaited report into the use of infected blood in the nhs is due to be

published in just under four weeks. around 30,000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis in the 1970s and �*80s — after being given unsafe blood products. 3,000 of them of have since died. fiona lamdin has more. good morning, sir. merry christmas to you. all right? i've got a stomachache. you've got a stomachache? he knew, he knew. yeah, he knew he was dying. he used to say i'm frightened. he was scared. as a baby, lee was diagnosed with haemophilia, a rare genetic condition where the blood doesn't clot properly. to help control his bleeding, when he was two, he was treated with a blood product called factor viii, which had been collected from a large number of donors.

we went for a routine checkup and we went in to see the consultant. and he told us that lee was infected with hiv. and then he was gone. he walked out the door. they were left completely on their own to deal with this devastating news. but then when he started school, things got even worse. i had a phone call one morning from the headmistress to say that there was press at the school and, obviously, the parents had been told and they didn't want him in the school. there were two teachers that didn't want to teach him. they used to stand away from me at the gate. lee wasn't invited to birthday parties or, out of school hours, no playing with anybody. he was sort of like a little leper. they were forced to move away and start a new life in cornwall. and even though they didn't tell anyone lee had hiv, things were very hard.

we weren't the people we should have been. we were the people we were made to be, because that's how our life was. we lied. and how do you tell people afterwards that we lied to them all? by the age of nine, lee had developed aids and he was very ill. he had days when he used to say, "i can't hear you." "i can't see anything." and he used to sit there and say he was frightened. he couldn't eat. this was lee's last christmas, taken three weeks before he died. he wasjust ten. we were given ten days, and he wanted to go to the beach. we wrapped him up and took him down to see the sea. and then he died on the eighth day. rob was also ten when, in 1971: he was given a blood transfusion after an operation

to remove his appendix. every day, i was having more and more bloods and that went on for maybe two months or so. it wasjust nonstop. i'd have three, sometimes four drips coming into me at any one time. for many years after, rob used a wheelchair and was always exhausted. it wasn't until three decades later he was finally diagnosed. my doctor phoned me. "i need to see you urgently." he then said, "i'm sorry to say, but you've got hep c." this is about that specific type. rob tracked down his old records and discovered he was one of the thousands who'd been given contaminated blood in a transfusion. that was the bottle of blood that gave me hepatitis. so that was the day that i was given hepatitis. wow. his doctors knew at the time, but didn't tell him. "there is no doubt he has a viral hepatitis, probably "transmitted by blood or plasma, transfusions." it was there in black and white.

from 197a. dated — from september 1974, they knew then. and the moment you saw it, you read it and you thought, "oh, "my goodness, they knew all the time." what was that like? itjust overwhelmed me, and i was physically sick. ijust, couldn't believe that someone, a business, the nhs, had wilfully hidden all this information from me, but no one told me. that's why i feel really bitter about that. really bitter. rob has since had brutal treatment for hepatitis c and has been left with irreversible liver damage. you know, you've got to remember, he's a little boy and he's been through all this because somebody gave him two viruses. and to watch him suffer, no child should go through that. what would justice look like now?

he should be recognised and they should now pay for the life that he's lost. lee's family, like so many others, have never received any compensation. 0n certain days, you always wonder and you wish he was here. you know, birthdays. first girlfriend, car. learning to drive. he's not part of being there with us, celebrating, you know? and he should be. fiona lamdin, bbc news. a student who has cerebral palsy and relies on a communication device to speak has found a new voice after a two—year search. daniel challis was fed up with sounding like a robot and decided to search for someone from his local area — walsall — to record a spoken vocabulary for him. he's been talking with our midlands correspondent navtej johal. midlands accent: when i chose my

. voice, i know what voice i like. . voice, i knew what voice i liked. dan will happily admit that he loves the sound of his own voice. but you can't blame him, especially as it's not technically his own voice. dan was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was a toddler, and has never been able to speak in his own voice. since he was nine years old, he's used a tablet like device to communicate, which he controls with his eyes, and sounds like this. generic robotic voice: this is my old voice. it's a robot voice. but two years ago, he set out on a mission to replace the robotic drawl and find someone with a walsall accent like his family, whose voice he could use as his own. midlands accent: i wanted my voice because i want to talk to my friends i in my family's accent. a social media and bbc local radio appeal led him to eli from walsall. that's good. "the she—wolf had developed a ferocious temper..." - with the help of dan's specialist college, where he also lives,

eli recorded three—and—a—half thousand words from new york where he's studying drama. i think it sounds more like us now, doesn't it? and this was the moment his mum heard her son's new voice for the first time. emotional. when his dad heard him as well, he was like, "oh, "he sounds like me now." you can hear him. i was going to say, that's his voice there. that's him in the background, yeah. does he ever stop talking now? no, you wouldn't ever get him quiet now! and dan had a special message for the person who gave him his voice. i feel happy, and i feel that it is going to improve my confidence. i love my new voice. thank you, eli. oh, that's so lovely. he laughs. oh, that's amazing. dan says the unusual search has meant he's now found his voice and his identity. navteonhal, bbc news.

you are watching bbc news. now — to a new kind of organ donation. it's called a paired or pooled donation, and it involves finding some other people who are in the same predicament, and swapping. 0ur health correspondent michelle roberts has more. it's like a microphone. a microphone? hello, hello, hello. destiny rae is five. she loves play—doh, singing, and her mum, maria. but she doesn't like broccoli or dialysis. but maybe when you get your kidney, you might like broccoli. what do you think? she's been having dialysis three times a week since she was ten months old because her kidneys don't work. added together, that's more than six whole months of her young life rigged up to the machine. i think all she's ever known is dialysis. she definitely doesn't have any memory of not being on dialysis. and this has kind of been like her second family for a long

time, which in many ways is a beautiful thing. but, also, what's best for her is to be out in school. there we go. play therapy helps pass the time while waiting for a new kidney. that's your favourite one, isn't it? the odds of finding a donor are stacked against destiny. there's a national shortage of organs. my turn! particularly from black and ethnic minority people. no suitable deceased donor has been found, but a special organ swap scheme with living donors — the uk living kidney sharing scheme — might help. the sharing scheme widens the search, using people who are willing to give one of their healthy kidneys to a stranger. they promise to donate if in return theirfriend or loved one gets a kidney from someone else. the swaps only go ahead if everyone matches up, so that no patient misses out. so, for example, you might have a pair here who aren't a good match, so you can't do a transplant.

but bring in another pair and you can see how you can match the kidneys up. good, we've got one. destiny's wait for a kidney has been long and uncertain. nope. but social media has provided a lifeline. they met their living donor, liffy, in an online discussion group talking about the difficulty of finding a donor. they don't go together? although liffy is not a tissue match for destiny, she hopes the scheme can pair them with someone who is. i think it's quite hard for people to get their head around why i would donate my kidney to someone i'm not related to, but also someone that i've met online. destiny was actually the same age as my own daughter and i couldn't imagine being in the same position as maria and destiny and someone not wanting to help this one. and destiny and someone not wanting to help. a healthy donor like liffy can lead a normal life on one remaining kidney, although it's a massive decision to make.

it wasn't until i saw her in the hospital and i wasjust like, "wow, she's serious." like, she really wants to get tested, you know? and from then on, we've just been best of friends. my daughter loves her, so she calls her auntie liffy. she loves her. they've got an amazing, like, bond. it's so beautiful to see. and, yeah, she's literally sent from heaven. she's my guardian angel. every three months, destiny and liffy wait to hear if a match can be found. they're hoping today it's third time lucky. maria? yes? can i tell you something? earlier today, i got a phone call. they've found a match for us. so we're paired up. do you want a hug?

medical teams will now start planning the operations. we've done it. michelle roberts, bbc news. just before we leave you, an update on our top story, after the uk government's rwanda bill was passed late last night, the plan is designed to deter migrants from crossing the channel in small boats. it was announced in 2022, but no flights are set off yet. the government hopes they will set off in the next ten to 12 weeks. in the past few hours, the french coastguard have now confirmed that five people have died attempting to cross the channel. these pictures were filmed by our team in calais, watching people try to leave the french coastline, heading to the uk. that is separate to the incident in which five people have died. those five include three men, women and a child, iconic french police. they say that a vessel set off around

five o'clock this morning, a small boat after an initials stranding on a sand bank, set to see again. to stay with us for more on that and the other top stories. thank for watching. hello. today, again, it's going to be milder in the west compared to the east. and as we go through the next few days, you'll notice the temperature coming down everywhere — as represented by the blues on the chart — on wednesday, thursday and friday. but as we head on into the weekend, low pressure looks like it's going to move across our shores. that looks like too it will introduce some milder conditions, but there's still a lot to play for with that one. today, we've got the dregs of yesterday's front pushing slowly south—eastwards, with its cloud and patchy light rain and drizzle. eastern areas still exposed to this brisk wind, taking the edge off the temperatures. it will feel quite cold on the east coast. a few showers for wales into the south—west, and the cloud in the east thick enough for that drizzle. it's the west that's going to see the lion's share of the sunshine today.

and, as a result, this is where we'll have the highest temperatures. we could reach 16 degrees once again. in glasgow yesterday, it was 16.5 celsius here. as we head through the evening and overnight, still the brisk, keen wind coming in off the north sea, blowing in some cloud, one or two showers. we've got this lump of cloud across central parts of england, east wales, pushing down towards the south. but under clear skies, where we've got the blues, temperatures will be freezing or even below. so there will be locally a touch of frost, but it's going to be a cold night generally. tomorrow, still this keen wind, still the cloud coming in from the north sea. but out towards the west, we're looking at brighter skies, some sunshine. you could catch a shower once again in south wales or indeed south—west england. temperatures, 14 in glasgow, so the temperatures coming down a little bit, 9 in norwich. and then as we head on into thursday, well, we've got low pressure out to the east, low pressure out towards the west, a front very close by, and it does mean we will see one or two showers. it's going to be

a colder day as well. some of those showers on high ground in scotland could well prove to be wintry, but a fair bit of cloud around, and again, nowhere really immune to a shower. this is a weather front trying to come in from the west. temperatures, 8 in aberdeen to about 13 in london. as we go beyond that into the end of the week and into the weekend, well, it looks very much like it's going to continue unsettled. there will be some rain at times, but the temperatures slowly starting to creep up.

live from london, this is bbc news. at least five people have died crossing the english channel on a small boat, say french officials. search and rescue operations are ongoing. —— at least five migrants, including a child. after the british parliament passes legislation aimed at allowing asylum seekers to be sent to rwanda, the bbc witnesses dramatic scenes in calais as migrants try to board a small boat. about a0 migrants with children came across the sand, and as you can see now, are trying to get onto the boat, which was, i have to say, already crowded. trump on trial — allegations the former president orchestrated a conspiracy of fraud and lies to cover up hush money payments to a porn star.

this is known as election interference. everybody knows it. tens of thousands are forced to leave their homes after torrential flooding and landslides batter southern china. after months of spouting gibberish, nasa says its voyager 0ne probe is again sending usable information back to earth. hello, i'm samantha simmonds. we begin with breaking news. france's coastguard is still carrying out several search—and—rescue operations at sea linked to migrants' attempts to cross the english channel. french authorities said at least five people had died earlier in the day on a small boat that transported over 100 people. the coastguard official said the deaths occurred during a crowd panic. the spokesperson could not say how many boats and people may still be in danger at sea. let's speak to the bbc�*s simonjones, who's in dover.